Hillsboro recorder., 1887-11-24
Farm and Garden Notes.

realize it. Swine like both grass anu |
hay. -;
1t is fortunate for many farmers that
the house well sometimes goes dry, be-
cause it gives an opportunity for clean
ing it. If it has not been cleaned for
two or three years, pump it dry and go |
at it
In series of experiments made by the
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
on cabbage worms, the most effectual
remedy was found to be a mixture OF
one ounce of pyrethrum and buckwhcat
flour. i
The cultivation of sunfowers is on the
increase. The object Is fourfold-for
ornament, sanitary effects, food f,r
poultry, aud in some localities substi-
tute for fuel. =-
Oats are commonly allowed to get full
ly ripe before they are harvested, where
as they should be cut while the straw
yet shows somewhat green. Cut at this
stage they are rarely lodged, and the
feeding value Of both grain and straw is
greater.
II the pigs have not already the rua
Of the orchard, turn them in, for the
benefit Of both. The windfalls will fur
nish welcome growing food to the young
animals and the orchard viii be helped
by the destruction Of insects as we'll as
by the manuring it will get.
In this country nearly 50 worth OF
milk, cream, butter and cheese together
are sold and consumed to every dollars
worth of beef. What is moro, there is
not much danger that the market for
dairy products will ever be less than
it is now---it is practically iuexhau.ti-
bic. --.-...
Ducks are not good winter layers, but
they begin very early in the season,
usually in February, laying their eggs
early in ths morning. They should not
be kept too fat, Boiled potatoes or tur-
nips, with plenty of grass, make excel
lent food for them at this season.
The black top Spanish merino is now
being bred extensively il West Virginia
and Pennsylvania. They yield delaile
wool and the carcass weighs $50 pounds.
Breeders who have stuck to the Spanish
merino for years are now going pell nell
into breeding black tops.
| Strawberry season is over. Now,
then, don't neglect the plants that have
brought you both time and pleasure.
Loosen the soil between the rows and
apply small quantity OF coarse mulch.
This win enable the plants to enjoy in
comfort season of deserved rest.
One reason that dairy butter does not
bring the highest price is because toe
many farmers keep it il their cellars. 4
cellar is no place for butter, no matter
how clean Of well ventilated IL may be.
There will be more or less odor from
last winters vegetables that the butter
will absorb.
Dan Rankin, Madison county, No., is
thought to be the largest individual
feeder Of cattle and hogs in the world
His farm embraces $4,000 acres, from
which he gathered 1000, 900 bushels oI
corn. 1t is not an uncommon thing fol
him to turn oil as many as 5000 cattl,
and 10, 900 hogs in a season.
It is thought that at no distant da,
the culture Of the olive will become on,
Of the most important as we'll as profia
bic fields Of horticultural enterprise Will
Us, as 1t is at present with many coun
tries in the south Of Europe, who's
chief revenue is derived from the cx
port Of olive oil and picked.oliycs.
The pig pen is often the most often
siye to the eye and the nOstris Of an,
place about the farm, the miry fill
often being terrible commentary upol
the keeping Of swine. This need no
and should mot be. The pork fron
swine kept in neat and clcapiy pen
.. quite different meat from that kept Il
q pen as described above.
3 The proper way to remove a large tire
. is to first cut away the roots By diggin.
, q trench about ten feet ia diameto
a around II, removing the earth ard refill
. ing with new rich earth. This will in
I duce the growth Of a great mass G
}. fibrous roots around the tIec. The mex
! year the tree may be removed, but th
a top should be cut back severely.
: IL may seem a small matter whtthe
: grass and weeds arc kept closely tu
d around hedges or not. II this work
e neglected the hedgerow expands, takin
C more room on either side every ycal
u Weed anil grass aleo furnish a harI,c
y for mice, which girdIc the hedge
Il winter, soon killing out the piants No ;